Member News

The New River Valley Home Builder Members Association, Inc.

• BLACKSBURG, Va. – Dec. 7, 2009 – It Takes a Village: Local Remodeler Recruits Help from Their Customers, Employees & Vendors for Fall Food Drive
As part of their 30th anniversary celebration, Blue Ridge Home Improvement held a food drive to benefit the Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program (MCEAP) Food Bank
Last Friday, the Blue Ridge Home Improvement (BRHI) dump truck pulled into a parking lot in Christiansburg, but instead of unloading the custom design and remodeler’s usual construction materials – the unloaded much needed food for our neighbors in the New River Valley.
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• BLACKSBURG, Va. – July, 2009 – Evergreen Insulation is pleased to be a primary sponsor of "Connect the Dots: A GreenPrint for Your Home," a Town Hall Event presented by the Southwest Virginia Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Held on August 1, 2009 at the Taubman Museum from 2-6 p.m., this is the first of several events for anyone interested in making homes more valuable, more energy efficient, healthier and less expensive to maintain. Evergreen Insulation’s presentation and the Connect the Dots event can be viewed at http://greendotsbuild.org/.

• BLACKSBURG, Va. – May, 2009 – Blue Ridge Home Improvement Celebrates National Home Remodeling Month with a 30th Anniversary Reception and Open House. Custom home remodeler held tours of one of their most recent whole house remodels.
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• BLACKSBURG, Va. – May, 2009 – Green Valley Builders, Inc. are featured in the Earthcraft Virginia e-newsletter, "Sensibly Built for the Environment."

• BLACKSBURG, Va. – March 30, 2009 – Snyder & Associates, General Contractor, announces that Michael Snyder and Doug Coffman have passed the LEED Professional Accreditation Exam.

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• BLACKSBURG, Va. – February 26, 2009 – Local Custom Home Remodeler Celebrates 30th Anniversary with 30 Days of Community Service. Blue Ridge Home Improvement will hold 30 Days of Thanksgiving for 30 Years of Success. In a time when the home building industry is experiencing national challenges, Blue Ridge Home Improvement (BRHI) is celebrating their 30th anniversary in a different way.
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• Gay & Neel, Inc. was awarded first and second place awards in two categories of the plat contest at the 61st annual convention of the Virginia Association of Surveyors, held at the Hotel Roanoke & Convention Center in January. The first-place award was in ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey. The second-place award was in the Topographic Survey category.

• Stephen Linkous of Gay & Neel, Inc. recently passed the Fundamentals of Surveying exam and is now a surveyor in-training.

• Matthew Tomlinson, Michael Short, and Joshua Nicholas of Gay & Neel, Inc. recently passed the Fundamentals of Engineering exam and are now engineers in-training.